Archive: 16/04/2020

Coronavirus: how accurate are coronavirus tests?

Coronavirus testing has been the subject of huge interest, frustration and confusion. The UK has come under worldwide criticism for its lack of mass testing, despite the director general of WHO encouraging countries to "test, ...

Apr 16, 2020

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If public universal healthcare is ever to be possible in America, 2020 could be the year

Richard Titmuss, a British pioneer of social policy, published an influential book called The Gift Relationship in 1970. It reflects on the altruism that underpins voluntary blood-donation systems like those of the UK and ...

Apr 16, 2020

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Coronavirus exit strategy: why 'low risk' millennials should be released from lockdown first

Millennials who do not live with their parents should be the first people released from the UK coronavirus lockdown. That is the conclusion of our new research which is being studied in Whitehall by officials. The move would ...

Apr 16, 2020

Blood test may help doctors catch pancreatic cancer early

A blood test may be able to detect the most common form of pancreatic cancer while it is still in its early stages while also helping doctors accurately stage a patient's disease and guide them to the appropriate treatment. ...

Apr 16, 2020

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International consortium investigates overactive immune cells as cause of COVID-19 deaths

In the urgent battle to treat COVID-19 patients, a group of eleven international medical research organizations is investigating whether overactive immune cells that produce neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) cause the ...

Apr 16, 2020

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Researchers expand international effort to rapidly repurpose drugs against COVID-19

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to spread across the globe, Scripps Research has quickly established an international network of collaborating scientific laboratories to leverage ReFRAME, the world's leading drug repurposing ...

Apr 16, 2020

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Caring for those most vulnerable to COVID-19 requires vigilance

As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic advances so does the uncertainty and evolution of the pandemic as it relates to nursing homes and long-term care facilities (LTCF). Early reports suggest the case fatality rate ...

Apr 16, 2020

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COVID-19: Impact of containment measures in Italy: 200,000 hospitalizations avoided in March

Since the beginning of the epidemic until March 25, the mobility restrictions implemented by the Italian government have avoided at least 200,000 hospitalizations and reduced the contagion transmission by 45% according to ...

Apr 16, 2020

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Researchers sample sewage to measure infections in six European countries

The spread of the coronavirus in Stockholm and in six European countries is being tracked through sewage samples by a research group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, which will report the results at the ...

Apr 16, 2020

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Drug overcomes chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer

An international research team, led by scientists from Mater Research—The University of Queensland, have discovered they can overcome chemotherapy resistance in an ovarian cancer subtype by using low doses of a drug which ...

Apr 16, 2020

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